Mortal Kombat: The Road to Armageddon

Chapter 5

Chapter Five

I finally woke up after having a lot of sleep. I should find something to eat and then go train. Nina seems to still be asleep. I shouldn't wake her up. I get up and find some food left on the table. There are two plates and a note. The note is from the servants letting us know that the food is ours and that we don't have to pay for anything. Well that's convenient. After all I have nothing other than my father's armor and my training gear. The food is covered in some type of material that I've never seen before. I look over the note again and it says to heat the food for 1 minute with this machine. There is a type of remote attached to the note that's probably it. I press a button and the plate heats up. I count for a minute and press another button to stop it. I then look again at the food and it's a rather larger meal than I remember. Maybe it's those types of dust where you add water and it's prepared. I don't know what kind of food this is but I decide I have to eat this. It looks like somebody attempted to make a guacamole flavored oatmeal. Though it doesn't look rather appetizing it's actually amazing. I wish I knew what it was and at the same time I don't.  After I finish eating the plate vanishes. Off to training then. I decide to just go to the beach area where it's secluded and I don't have to deal with others. I mainly practice my normal stance and just do some kicks and punches, nothing special. After a while I do push-ups and some sit-ups. I then call it a day and head back.

Nina isn't there she probably went to train as well. Her food and plate are also gone meaning she hopefully knew what to do. I decided to take a shower and surprisingly, it's a bit easier than the shower at the rich house I had to live in. After a few hours Nina comes back looking tired and sweaty from her training.

"Did you go to the training course? Because I didn't see you there." She asked a little breathlessly.

"I went to a beach area mainly because I prefer to train alone." I state blatantly.

"Oh. Ok then, but if you ever change your mind tell me, and I'll show you where it is." She takes in a deep breath after saying that.

"Alright I'll tell you if I want to go there, thanks." She then goes to the bathroom and takes a shower. After a while there is a knock on the door and a servant comes in. She looks rather human, and not like anything out of this realm.

"Here's the food that you'll be eating tonight. Enjoy." Then the servant leaves. I decide I should wait for Nina so we can eat together. After a while of waiting she comes out in a new type of clothes. She is now wearing a type of pajamas.

"The food's here already?" She says drying off her still wet hair.

"Yeah they just came by and I decided I'd wait and eat with you." I then start to warm up my food and in the minute it's ready. I give the remote to Nina and she also does the same. This time the food looks different. It looks like scrambled eggs covered in barbeque and mustard. We still don't know what this food is yet we still find it delicious. I then ask where she's originally from. She tells me she's from Brazil and that the tournament may give her a chance to actually do something with her martial arts. She wants to belong to something, and believes that she's meant for something else. She hopes she can discover herself, or whatever it is she wants to during the tournament. From what I can also gather she likes to just relax and do pretty much nothing around. Though she can be serious when she needs to be. She then asks me the same question. I tell her I don't know where I was born only that I was raised in New York after the murder of my father and my sister being kidnapped. She then asks if I had a mother who could've raised me. I tell her the truth.

"My mother is a goddess. She can't take care of a child. She has too much to do since she has to ensure these worlds are safe and protected. Plus I don't even think she has a physical body to be honest. Since nobody could raise me, I was then "sent" to an orphanage and then got adopted by a rich family who were just horrible. And now I'm here." Again she doesn't know how to take all this information in. So I tell her that we move on and should go to bed. She has a big reason to be here where I don't have something to fight for. All I really have is just personal gain. Though it's at least better than what Johnny wants. I doubt he'll leave here satisfied with the way he currently is. He might as well just give up, there's no hope for him for love or victory of this tournament. How did he even get an invitation? He's obviously not worthy of this tournament or any at all with his current personal gain. I hope he gets eliminated rather quickly. I regret agreeing to him about working together.

There's only a few days left until the tournament begins. This is what I've been preparing for years. My whole life has been dedicated just to this tournament. Despite the fact that this is the first tournament I have ever participated in. I must've always been on Shang Tsung's radar, and only recently he must've decided I was worthy to enter the tournament.

All those thousands of years training, I don't even remember a time when I wasn't training. I'm mostly glad to have been able to live so long because of my Edenian blood. We can live for thousands of years. Mostly because it's believed that we are the descendants of the Elder Gods themselves. That would explain their long lifespan and their strength and wisdom. I guess I could be seen as that dream becoming a reality. My father is full Edenian and my mother is an Elder God. That would make me a true descendant of the gods making me what the Edenian folklore talks about. I heard this story from my father but my mother never confirmed if it was true or not. Whatever it is I take pride in being seen as something like this. Even if it was just a story, it seems like it's possible now. I think this actually makes me three quarters Elder God, which would mean I could live for much longer than Edenians, and possibly have greater powers than them as well. At least, that's what I believe if this was actually true. I have nothing to confirm this sadly. That is pretty much all I know about my race and I doubt that my mother will just tell me what's going on, but maybe if I find another Edenian, maybe I'll understand. I wonder how many other Edenians there are besides me.